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A Nantucket Shipwreck Surfaced With No Match in Any Historical Record
A powerful storm uncovered a mysterious wooden hull near Nantucket, and archaeologists who hoped to match it to a documented…
Pompeii Cupboard Sealed Since AD 79 Held Coins, Amulets, and Perfume
Archaeologists at Pompeii opened a wooden cupboard sealed since the Vesuvius eruption of AD 79 and found its original contents…
Vikings Never Wore Horned Helmets — One Costume Sketch in 1876 Fooled the World
The iconic horned Viking helmet traces back not to Norse warriors but to a single 1876 opera costume sketch —…
Enslaved People Buried Under Charleston Streets Get a Ceremony Before Digging
Thousands of enslaved and free Black Charlestonians lie beneath 106 Coming Street, where a college dormitory is planned. Before archaeological…
WWII Torpedo Sank SS Cornwallis in Minutes — Lost 80 Years in Gulf of Maine
A German U-boat torpedo sank the merchant vessel SS Cornwallis near Mount Desert Rock in 1944, killing 43 of 48…
Paleontologists Unearth 4 Dinosaur Species Near Moab — One May Be New to Science
At a newly discovered site in southeastern Utah's Morrison Formation, paleontologists have identified fossils from four distinct dinosaur species —…
Caracol’s 1,700-Year-Old Royal Tomb Is Dismantling What We Knew About the Maya
Deep in Belize's Chiquibul forest, the ancient Maya metropolis of Caracol has spent decades handing archaeologists evidence that contradicts nearly…
,000-Year-Old Saqqara Tomb With Three Sealed Sarcophagi Defied Looters
A new Saqqara excavation has uncovered a 4,000-year-old Middle Kingdom tomb built for a high-ranking official, complete with three sealed…
How a Baltimore Hairdresser Cracked an Ancient Roman Hairstyle Mystery
Classical scholars had insisted Rome's towering braided hairstyles had to be wigs — until a Baltimore hairdresser with no archaeology…
Utah Geologists Excavate What May Be North America’s Oldest Cretaceous Bonebed
The Utah Geological Survey has begun excavating a dinosaur bonebed dating back 138 to 141 million years on a Utah…
Cleopatra Lived 500 Years Closer to the Moon Landing Than to the Pyramids
When you run the actual numbers, Cleopatra sat more than 500 years closer in time to the Apollo 11 Moon…
World’s Oldest Shipwreck May Have Been Found — 4,700 Years Old
A wooden cargo vessel discovered in the sheltered waters off Kekova Island, Turkey has been dated to between 4,400 and…
Karahantepe’s 11,000-Year-Old Carvings Are Rewriting Stone Age History
A cluster of Stone Age sites in southeastern Turkey — including Karahantepe and Göbekli Tepe — has produced sky burials,…
9 Biggest Myths About Archaeology on TV That Dig Finally Gets Right
From treasure-hunting heroes to Egypt-only settings, Hollywood has long distorted how archaeology really works. Peacock's Dig, created by Amy Poehler…